There are seven pages of images if you click at the top of the page there on one of the numbers following the "image galleries". You may like paintings other than the ones I have chosen to share with your children. There are lots of details to study in this painting as well as wonderful colors. Notice how the warm yellows and oranges are on the left on the top and on the right on the bottom and the wonderful cool blue greens are on the right on top and the left on the bottom - wonderful contrast!
Today part 3 of Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland.
I can't say I'm really enjoying his music, but my children have been more open minded about it....
An interesting poem today by Carl Sandburg about the affect of beautiful music on the soul - and here is a link to a Tchaikovsky violin concerto played by Mischa Elman
A man saw the whole world as a grinning
skull and cross-bones. The rose flesh of life shriveled from all faces.
Nothing counts. Everything is a fake. Dust to dust and ashes to ashes
and then an old darkness and a useless silence. So he saw it all. Then
he went to a Mischa Elman concert. Two hours waves of sound beat on his
eardrums. Music washed something or other inside him. Music broke down
and rebuilt something or other in his head and heart. He joined in five
encores for the young Russian Jew with the fiddle. When he got outside
his heels hit the sidewalk a new way. He was the same man in the same
world as before. Only there was a singing fire and a climb of roses
everlastingly over the world he looked on.
We are very much enjoying Copland's music. It's lively. It's reflective. It makes me want to jump on a horse and go galloping across the prairie! :). I think you do a great job introducing us (parents and kids alike) to artists and composers we might not otherwise encounter as well as the well-known ones. Be encouraged!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your encouraging words!!
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